▪ I. brog, n. dial.
(brɒg)
[Of uncertain origin. (Sc. also brɔg, brog) the Gaelic brog ‘awl’, must, according to Thurneysen, be an adopted word.]
1. A pricking or boring instrument: the common name in Scotland of a bradawl; also, an awl.
| 1808 in Jamieson. 1861 Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 59 But oh, please tak a brog, and prod him weel, and let the wind out o' him. |
2. A prick with a bradawl, etc.
| 1808 in Jamieson. |
3. A short stick, esp. one to stick in the ground; e.g. those stuck in the ‘Sands’ of North Lancashire, to indicate the crossing.
| 1781 J. Hutton Tour Caves (E.D.S.) Brogs, small sticks. 1870 Barber Forness Folk 35 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) We'd gitten by t' last brog an' off t' sand. 1875 Lanc. Gloss., Brog, a branch, a bough, a broken branch. |
▪ II. brog, v. dial.
(brɒg)
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To prick, prod; to push an awl through.
| a 1774 Fergusson Election Poems (1845) 42 Wi a muckle elshin lang He brogit Maggie's hurdies. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. v, ‘D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather?’ 1820 ― Monast. iii, ‘The stony-hearted villains were brogging them on wi' their lances!’ |
2. To insert pointed sticks into; see quot. dial.
| 1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 58 After obtaining a safe ford, the guides..mark out the track by inserting branches of trees. This is called ‘broggin' t' channel’. |
3. intr. To broggle for eels, to sniggle. dial.
| 1678 Littleton Lat. Dict., To broge for Eels. 1706 Phillips, Brogue or Broggle, to fish for Eels, after a particular manner, by troubling the Water. c 1750 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Wks. Gloss. s.v. Brog, Fishing for eels, called brogging..by putting the hook and worm on a small stick, and thrusting it into holes where the eels lye. |
Hence brogged staff (Sc.): a pointed or spiked staff as a weapon of war.
| 1429 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §121 With sworde and buckler, and a gude axe, or else a brogged staffe. a 1550 Peebles to Play 9 He stert till ane broggit staff, Winchand as he were wood. |